Industrial Relations, Employment and OHS

Providing specialised legal advice and representation with respect to all areas of Workplace Relations, Employment, Work, Health & Safety Law.

Our legal team is resourced to provide the same depth of legal knowledge, experience and expertise found in the employment and IR practice groups of larger multi-practice area legal firms, with Bartlett Workplace delivering on a more competitively and flexibly priced basis. 

We are responsive to the pressures and factors that we see working, and on corporations and their decision-making in the area. 

We provide high level legal advice and representation with respect to collective and individual employment issues including enterprise bargaining, enterprise agreements, industrial disputes, employment contracts including executive contracts, termination of employment, adverse action, workplace bullying, sexual harassment; Workplace Health and Safety incidents, workplace policies, workplace discipline; workplace training and education and compliance with workplace relations law generally.

Our highly experienced team are the trusted advisors to a number of global organisations, and some of Australia’s largest employers, including government and labour regulators and have access to the latest in workplace and labour law insights and education and training.

We provide specialised legal; advice and representation with respect to all areas of industrial relations, workplace relations, employment and WHS law, including:

  • Industrial Relations and Disputes, Union and Labour Strategies

  • Industrial Action and Right of Entry

  • End to End Enterprise Agreement Offerings:

    • Enterprise Agreement Drafting and Interpretation

    • Training and Development of Bargaining Teams

  • Employment Contracts, Executive Contracts and Remuneration

  • Performance and Conduct Managment including termination of Employment

  • Workplace Bullying and Sexual Harassment

  • Employment Disputes, Litigation incl. General Protections and Adverse Action

  • Transfer of Business and Onboarding on new teams

  • Workplace Investigations, including serious WHS Investigations, conducting, advising on and training Workplace Investigations, in house teams and decision makers

  • WHS advice, incident response, risk management and WHS regulation compliance

  • Managing Ill and Injured Employees

  • ADR support including Mediation

  • Education and Training programs

  • Review of Policies, Procedures and Management Guidelines

  • Local, State and Commonwealth Government

  • Public Sector Entities

  • Education and Higher Education

  • Health/Emergency Services

  • Construction/ Infrastructure

  • Transport and Logistics

  • Aviation/Aeromedical

  • Advanced Manufacturing

  • Agribusiness

  • Oil and Gas

  • Energy and Resources

  • Utilities and Retail

  • Professional Services/ Banking and Finance

  • Consumer Retail

  • Hospitality

  • Sports/Entertainment

  • Media and Broadcast/Communications

  • Technologies and Start Ups

Our lawyers and consultants have extensive experience providing representation across a wide range of industry groups:

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